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little swell, and a rollicking one too, but when pushed would go through the hardest work and 

 put up with the poorest fare. 



" Kar-yardi had no great beauty about him, and was not, like Cole-ci, of the swell type. He 

 was a thorough-going workman. Like Colc-ci he had Arab blood in him, as all good horses in 

 Turkey have, but he did not show it much. He had a long body, short legs, never carried much 

 flesh, and had a raffish look all over. He was the best-tempered beast in the world in 

 and out of the stable, and no vice ; but his fi.Ked idea was to pull at his rider's hands from 

 morning till night ; he would run away at a walk ; and when once in a gallop there was no 

 stopping him. I have ridden him thousands of miles, and can safely say that he was all the 

 time running away with me ; but he became the property of a lady, and with her never 

 pulled an ounce ; if she lent him to a man he bolted directly. He was nimble as a roe-deer ; 

 would jump a high gate with ease. Both horses became passionately fond of coursing." 



AMERICAN HORSES. 



There were no horses on the American continent until it was colonised by Europeans. The 

 beast of burden of the Peruvians was the lama ; the horses ridden by Cortes and his companions 

 were taken by the Mexicans for a sort of centaur beast. 



The horses of the United States and of Canada are the descendants of English breeds, 

 crossed with a few imported Arabs. The Dutch settlers brought some of their cart-horses 

 to New York. 



In Virginia, Maryland, and other Southern States, the tastes of the English yeomanry 

 were imported with the settlers. Blood hunters and race-horses were bred, and riding on 

 horseback was one of the habits of the Southerners until the great rebellion brought their 

 means to an end. 



In the Northern States driving and trotting matches have been popular amusements 

 for nearly a century. 



An American paper, in September, 1878, after reporting that the famous Rams had 

 fairly trotted two successive mile heats in two minutes thirteen and a half seconds, the fastest 

 time on record, quotes the following from the Connecticut Journal of June 19, 1806. "FAST 

 Trotting.— Yesterday afternoon the Haerlem racecourse of one mile distance, was trotted 

 around in tivo mimites and fifty-nine seconds by a horse called Yankey, from New Haven 

 a rate of speed, it is believed, never before excelled in this country, and fully equal to anything 

 recorded in the English sporting calendars." — N. Y. Sped. 



At that date some of the best thoroughbred blood of England had been imported 

 into the United States. "Amongst those was Diomed, the winner of the first Epsom Derby, 

 who covered for many years in America, and died at thirty-six years old, leaving hundreds 

 of offspring to perpetuate his name. No State in America, and no province in Canada, 

 is without sires and marcs combining the blood of Lexington and of Yorkshire." According 

 to the opinion of a recent traveller in the States, " the blue grass of Kentucky has produced 

 a race of horses as good as any in the world for the production of English hunters." 



During the struggle between France and Germany, when Europe seemed trembling on 

 the verge of a universal war, attention was drawn to Canada as a country from which our 

 War Office in emergency might draw a supply of troopers, so long as we maintained the 

 command of the seas. 



The Canadian horses of the present day are the produce of the French breeds already 

 mentioned and crosses of English blood, introduced by British colonists, by military men 



